Aligning Sustainability and Financial Results

Our Sustainability Value Framework showed that implementing favorable pollution policies has multi-billion dollar advantages for one consumer packaged goods company over its peers.  And that is just the tip of the iceberg.

• Do you find it difficult to quantify and communicate the value of your sustainability initiatives?
• Are you feeling increased pressure from stakeholders to align sustainability ambitions with financial objectives?
• Do you know which sustainability opportunities stand to create the material financial value and which do not?

The Emerging Sustainability Challenge

Most executives agree that sustainability is becoming more important to financial success but companies struggle to accurately quantify and communicate the actual financial value and impact.  Yes, sustainability efforts can result in direct revenue and cost advantages – but sustainability value is much more complex and wide-reaching than that.  Sustainability has the most significant impact on indirect financial factors such as corporate behavior, policies and risks, which influence investor and consumer preferences and ultimately what your company is worth.  Leading organizations align sustainability with financial returns by understanding holistic value implications.

A New Framework for Sustainability

Combining West Monroe’s business and sustainability expertise with the one-of-a-kind financial modeling approach, we can help your organization understand the enterprise value impact of your sustainability investments and recommend actions that have a material positive financial impact for your company. 

Our multidisciplinary team brings together the expertise of three leading firms to provide a rigorous, financially grounded framework for implementing sustainability. Through our alliance with CharterMast Partners and Ativo Research, our Sustainability Value Framework uniquely promotes and bolsters your company’s enterprise value through:

• Adoption of favorable sustainability behaviors, practices, policies, and strategies
• Strategic business integration
• External investor communication and positioning
• Regulatory positioning
• De-risking of business from looming sustainability risk

Within the context of our Sustainability Value Framework we also help our clients create value by assisting with:

• Environmental Management Systems - Assessing, selecting, and implementing the right environmental management systems and business intelligence solutions
• Smart Grid & Smart Energy - Creating a road map to your smart grid future, including impact to your infrastructure, energy use, and products
• Standards - Obtaining or verifying compliance with leading sustainability standards, including ULE 880, ISO 14000, and ISO 26000
• Supply Chain - Evaluating supply chain decisions through a balanced sustainability lens
• Green IT - measuring and improving the environmental impact of IT, including server and hardware energy usage and waste 
• Project Management – Keeping your Sustainability initiative on budget, on scope and on schedule

That’s business in the right direction.